Question

Firefox cache settings that were working are no longer working, in Windows XP (x86) and Windows 7 (64).

By this I meant that I had set the cache to a ram-drive, but that is no longer being used, the cache is being written to disk instead in what is apparently the new default location, and my customized cache settings are ignored.

I've tried resetting Firefox to default and then re-applying them, but the problem still exists.

This is for FF 19+, but not sure when the problem first occurred - perhaps an earlier version too.

Is it no longer possible to re-direct the cache directory? How do you do it?

I've turned it off now and can see the correct settings in about:cache, and can also see the cache directories created where I expect them to be.

However I've noticed that icons in the jumpListCache and thumbnails are still being written to the default windows location. (As an aside, even though I had had clear history set, there were over 32,000 items in the jumpListCache directory).